Accurate staging of invasive cervical cancer is essential to its adequate treatment. Current clinical staging of cervical cancer is inaccurate, particularly for lymph-nodes evaluation. At reduced cost and risks laparoscopic pelvic lymphadenectomy allows accurate detection of lymph-node metastases. Its place in the staging of early cervical cancer is being evaluated. Our inquiry, multicentric and including more than 500 laparoscopic pelvic lymphadenectomies, leads to the conclusion that this technique is accurate and is associated with a reduced but variable morbidity depending on the technique and operator's ability. The implications of the results of laparoscopic lymphadenectomy in the type and modalities of subsequent treatment are discussed.